WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
By Councilman, Ruben Diaz Sr.
District 18 Bronx County, New York
Councilman Rev. Rubén Díaz Sr. Announces The First Public Hearing of the
“FOR-HIRE VEHICLE COMMITTEE”.
You should know that the newly created New York City Council’s Committee “FOR-HIRE VEHICLE” will be conducting its First Public Hearing this coming Monday, February 12, 2018, AT 10:00 am at the City Council Chambers.
It is important for you to know that this Public Hearing will be conducted as a fact-finding mission regarding Taxi and Limousine Commission’s “RULES OF ENFORCEMENT”, and the Entrapment Methods used to enforce such rules.
The Committee “FOR-HIRE VEHICLE is Chair by Bronx City Councilmember Rev, Rubén Díaz Sr. and is composed by six other members, they are: Ydanis Rodriguez Manhattan, Joseph Borelli, and Deborah Rose Staten Island, Peter Vallone, Francisco Moya and Constantinides Costa from Queens.
As you can see my dear readers, there is only one Councilmember from the Bronx, and one from Manhattan, the other five members are two from Staten Island and three from Queens.
NYC Taxi and Limousine Commissioner Meera Joshi will be among the more than 50 people that will be testifying as well as livery drivers. The majority of these drivers are immigrants, complaining of discrimination, abuse, and excessively high fines issued by the Taxi Limousine Enforcement Agents.
The” FOR-HIRE VEHICLE COMMITTEE” is a newly created Committee that will exclusively be dealing with everything under the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission Jurisdiction including but not limited to the Yellow, Black, Green, Livery, Para-Transit Vehicles, and other group companies such as Uber, Lyft, Ghetts, Juno, Via, ETC..
For more information contact Mr. Christopher Lynn, Esq. or Jennie Mejia at (718) 792-1140
I am Councilman Ruben Diaz Sr. and this is what you should know.
EDITOR'S NOTE:
It seemed no reason to create this committee when in fact the Transportation Committee was doing a good job representing the 'FOR HIRE' car drivers.
One has to wonder why the Carriage Horse, and Pedicab industries, which are 'FOR HIRE' modes of transportation were not included in this committee.
We will give close watch to this committee, and how it operates. We suggest higher fines, and complete impoundment of 'For Hire' vehicles that so blatantly drive recklessly, ignore the traffic laws, and place pedestrian safety in danger.
That is what the Councilman Ruben Diaz Sr. should do.
